Category: Writing

Geoffrey Philp is a Caribbean author with a story in ‘Whispers From the Cotton Tree Root’ called Uncle Obadiah and The Alien, which I really enjoyed, and I found his website this week and was perusing through and was quite taken with this quote of his: When would we write stories that liberated us from…

I’ve told a number of people starting novels or thinking about them or shopping them that shorter is better these days, and the old adage about needing to write a big first book is totally not true. There seems to be a persistent meme going around about needing to pad novels. It’s not true. First…

At Neil Gaiman’s weblog someone asked: But all the advice I’ve found says to stick to one point of view, anything else annoys editors. If you’re a first time author, do publishers just reject books like this? If that was the case I’d be fucked. I move around POVs every couple thousand words or so…

I’m 17 years old, a sophomore in college, and I’ve just begun my 100 rejections a year or bust routine, severed all connections with writers who haven’t sold anything and were giving me bad advice, and started a weblog at geocities (yeah, I’ve been blogging/journaling for 7 years and I’m not famous like slashdot or…

I prefer to work late at night. As I slide towards sleep, and hover in that odd zone, I could begin to somewhat believe in a ghost that I’m writing about. My imagination is much more likely to engulf my consciousness. I can, between 11pm and 8am, convince myself on a level that I can’t…